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Banská Bystrica ranks 951st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Chiswick, Matsudo, and Landshut. Memorable people born in Banská Bystrica include Marek Hamšík, Peter Pellegrini, and Roland Jacobi. Banská Bystrica has been the birth place of many hockey players, and soccer players. Banská Bystrica is located in Slovakia.

Banská Bystrica is a city in central Slovakia, located on the Hron River in a long and wide valley encircled by the mountain chains of the Low Tatras, the Veľká Fatra, and the Kremnica Mountains. With approximately 76,000 inhabitants, Banská Bystrica is the sixth most populous municipality in Slovakia. The present-day town was founded by German settlers, invited by the Hungarian Árpád-kings, during the Middle Ages, however it was built upon a former Slavic/Slovakian/Avar settlement. A part of Zolyom county after the Hungarian conquest. During the reign of Béla IV of Hungary it obtained the municipal privileges of a free royal town of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1255 and resettled with Germans from Thüringen. The copper mining town acquired its present picturesque look in the late Middle Ages when the prosperous burghers built its central churches, mansions, and fortifications. It is the capital of the kraj and the okres. It is also the home of Matej Bel University. As a historical town with an easy access to the surrounding mountains, Banská Bystrica is a popular winter and summer tourist destination. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 1893 and 1989, Banská Bystrica was the birth place of 15 globally memorable people, including Marek Hamšík, Peter Pellegrini, and Roland Jacobi.

People Born in Banská Bystrica

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Banská Bystrica were hockey players (4), soccer players (3), politicians (2), table tennis players (1), and architects (1),  while most who died were .

Over the past 100 years, hockey players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Banská Bystrica, including Michal Handzuš, Richard Zedník, and Tomáš Surový. Whereas, throughout history, hockey players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Banská Bystrica, including Michal Handzuš, Richard Zedník, and Tomáš Surový.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 3 globally memorable people born in Banská Bystrica since 1700.